Resistance to glycopeptides in enterococci

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 545-556

  Leclercq, Roland ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^b  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CROSS LINKING; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030903151     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clind/24.4.545     Document Type: Article

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